sharing knowledge
SahVidya
he days when you did a project and had to carry it on a CD to different computers along with all the software required to execute it in order to show it to your teacher. Two classmates, Bhanu Gupta and Vivek Kumar Singh, graduated from IIT Delhi, during their masters both of them felt this pain of limited file sharing and storage. They worked for more than one and half year to find solution for their problem and they started Sahvidya on June 2013. Sahvidya is an online application for data storage and networking focused towards educational institutions, where students can store their data both privately and publicly, and share it with their class, college, or even with other colleges. An interesting aspect of this model is that you can access the files shared publicly by another university. Sahvidya is an academic networking system, using which students and faculty can share files with different academic entities in a single step. A student can send a file to his entire batch just by selecting entry year and program enrolled for, instead of entering details of each student one by one. The ‘networking’ feature which allows users to access the files and research papers shared by other universities. It also tends to contribute towards the increase in the knowledge-sharing culture, along with interaction between the students different institutions. Sahvidya has expanded mainly to premier
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Bhanu Gupta (left) Vivek Kumar Singh
institutions like IIT Bombay, IIM Lucknow, IIM Ahmadabad, National Institute of Fashion Technology, National University of Singapore, and Georgia Tech University. They are working on adding universities from North America and Europe apart from adding Asian universities on their network. Currently around 300 users are using Sahvidya across the globe. Sahvidya uses a freemium model, registration is free and user is granted 2GB of personal and 1GB of public space which can be accessed by others and user can buy extra space of 1 GB by paying 0.3$/month.
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